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Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2018)
Boston, Massachusetts, March 21, 2018
https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/
<https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/>
@ AMTA 2018 (http://www.conference.amtaweb.org/
<http://www.conference.amtaweb.org/>)
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BRIEF:
1. Call for 4-8 pages research, review, position papers, and 2 pages
demo descriptions
2. Submission by February 4, 2018 anywhere in the world
https://www.softconf.com/amta2018/loresmt/
<https://www.softconf.com/amta2018/loresmt/>
SCOPES
Statistical and neural machine translation (SMT/NMT) methods have been
successfully used to build MT systems in many popular languages in the
last two decades with significant improvements on the quality of
automatic translation. However, these methods still rely upon a few
natural language processing (NLP) tools to help pre-process human
generated texts in the forms that are required as input for these
methods, and/or post-process the output in proper textual forms in
target languages.
In many MT systems, the performance of these tools has great impacts on
the quality of resulting translation. However, there is not much
discussion on these NLP tools, their methods, their roles in different
MT systems of diverse methods, their coverage of support for the many
languages in the world, etc. In this workshop, we would like to bring
together researchers who work on these topics and help review/overview
what are the most important tasks we need from these tools for MT in the
following years.
These NLP tools include, but not limited to, several kinds of word
tokenizers/de-tokenizers, word segmenters, morphology analysers, etc.
In this workshop, we solicit papers dedicated to these supplementary
tools that are used in any language and especially in low resource
languages. We would like to have an overview of these NLP tools from
our community. The evaluations of these tools in research papers should
include how they have improved the quality of MT output.
TOPICS
We solicit original research papers, review papers as well as position
papers on these tools in the workshop. Multilingual and/or
Cross-lingual NLP tools for MT of low resource languages are especially
welcome. Topics of the workshop include but not limited to
- Research and review papers of pre-process and/or post-process NLP
tools for MT
- Position papers on the development of pre-process and/or post-process
tools for MT
- Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages
- Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages
- Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language-pairs
- Use of morphology analysers and/or morpheme segmenters for MT
- Multilingual and/or Cross-lingual NLP tools for MT
- Reusability of existing NLP tools for low resource languages
- Corpora curation technologies for low resource languages
- Review of available parallel corpora for low resource languages
- Research and review papers of MT methods for low resource languages
- Fast building of MT systems for low resource languages
- Reusability of existing MT systems for low resource languages
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Workshop papers should follow AMTA 2018 style guide.
There are two types of submissions in the workshop. For research,
review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least
four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus additional two (2) pages
for references. More pages would be allowed as long as it could be
justified. The review will be double-blind. For non-archival system
demonstration abstracts, the length should be two (2) or more pages.
The review will be single-blind.
We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY
language that are related to the topic they are working on, as long as
both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English
translations are given.
The submission website is online already. Submission deadline is
February 4, 2018 anywhere in the world.
https://www.softconf.com/amta2018/loresmt/
<https://www.softconf.com/amta2018/loresmt/>
IMPORTANT DATES
December 22, 2017: First call for papers
January 10, 2018: Second call for papers
February 4, 2018: Submission deadline of workshop papers
February 11, 2018: Notification of acceptance
February 16, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
March 21, 2018: LoResMT workshop
ORGANIZERS
Alina Karakanta Universität des Saarlandes
Chao-Hong Liu ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
Daria Dzendzik ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
Erlyn Manguilimotan Weathernews Inc., Japan, formerly with NAIST
Francis Tyers Higher School of Economics, National Research
University
Iacer Calixto ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
Ian Soboroff National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST)
Jonathan Washington Swarthmore College
Majid Latifi Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Nathaniel Oco National University (Philippines)
Peyman Passban ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
Prachya Boonkwan National Electronics and Computer Technology
Center
Sangjie Duanzhu Qinghai Normal University
Santanu Pal Universität des Saarlandes
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Jadavpur University
Sudip Kumar Naskar Jadavpur University
Thepchai Supnithi National Electronics and Computer
Technology Center
Tommi A Pirinen Universität Hamburg
Vinit Ravishankar Charles University in Prague
Yalemisew Abgaz ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
CONTACT
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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